Our story

LakeDiamond. Built on a rock solid foundation.

The combined force of our expertise enables us to create some of the best quality lab-grown diamonds in the world and exploit the power of their extraordinary properties.

LakeDiamond brings together all the competences and infrastructure needed to grow, transform and sell diamonds. Our company is evolving with the joint expertise of a group of extraordinary people: business developers and strategists, quantum physicists and computer scientists, blockchain and crypto professionals, and experts in diamond growth, photonics and electronics.

Patent granted

2018

Production is industrialized

Core Team

Pascal Gallo

Chief Executive Officer

Pascal Gallo

Chief Executive Officer

For Pascal Gallo, diamonds have always been near to his heart. Thanks to his grandfather – a mine prospector in Africa – very early on Pascal developed a deep passion for crystals and precious stones. After his PhD in quantum physics and crystal growth, he joined Prof. Eli Kapon’s group at EPFL to continue his research on fundamental interactions between light and matter in semiconductor nanostructures. He then served as operation planner and Chief Business Development Officer in startups that were active in photonics, before co-founding LakeDiamond.

Christophe Provent

Chief Operations Officer

Christophe Provent

Chief Operations Officer

Christophe Provent, MBA, PhD, fuses a passion for chemistry with a vision for business. After working as director of operations and finances at CSEM and co-founding Adamant Technologies, Christophe co-founded NeoCoat, industry leader in diamond coating and CVD diamond reactor manufacturing.

David Rats

Chief Technology Officer

David Rats

Chief Technology Officer

David Rats holds a PhD in CVD diamond growth. After his tenure as process engineer at Philips semiconductor foundry, quality & production director at Xenocs and process manager at Adamant Technologies, David co-founded NeoCoat with Christophe Provent. He is currently CTO, and in particular, in charge of LakeDiamond’s lab.

Theophile Mounier

Chief Financial Officer

Theophile Mounier

Chief Financial Officer

Theophile Mounier, Master’s in Management (NEOMA Business School) brings 18 years of international experience in finance leadership, controlling, internal audit and in mergers and acquisitions, to LakeDiamond. He has led finance in organisations up to EUR 2bn turnover as well as in SMEs and start-ups.

Alex Kummerman

Chief Investment Officer

Alex Kummerman

Chief Investment Officer

Alex Kummerman is a serial entrepreneur and fundraiser with 25 years of experience linking the digital world with the real economy. Alex brings skills in strategy, international business development and complex project management to his role at LakeDiamond in investor relations and initial coin offerings (ICO).

Romain Braud

Chief Information Officer

Romain Braud

Chief Information Officer

Romain Braud has been at the forefront of the emerging Blockchain industry. Over the last 13 years he has launched and managed successful global operations at the intersection of ICT, business and cryptofinance. Building on his solid IT business acumen, Romain is spearheading the development of LakeDiamond's Blockchain strategy and protocol as well as leading on digital technology and cybersecurity.

Diamond Growth Team

Ioulia Tsvetkova

Chief Scientific Officer

Ioulia Tsvetkova

Chief Scientific Officer

Ioulia Tsvetkova, PhD, received her PhD in diamond growth in 1993 with Prof. Fedoseev at Moscow University. Ioulia has an extensive experience in both research and industrialisation. In her role as CSO, Ioulia coordinates all the diamond characterization activities, as well as HPHT diamond supply, at LakeDiamond.

Mehdi Naamoun

Head of CVD diamond growth

Mehdi Naamoun

Head of CVD diamond growth

Mehdi Naamoun received his PhD from LSPM in Paris, France, a prominent lab specialized in diamond growth and characterization. His research focused on diamond growth, and its use in high-power devices. He is currently in charge of growth process development, and has responsibility for key projects on diamond devices at LakeDiamond.

Applications Team

Nicolas Malpiece

Power Beaming Project Leader

Nicolas Malpiece

Power Beaming Project Leader

Nicolas Malpiece received his Master’s degree from Sup’Optique Paris, France, and has an in-depth knowledge of photonic applications. He is currently supervising the implementation of our ShineOn’s power beaming project, in collaboration with Andrei Caliman.

Andrei Caliman

Diamond Laser Project Leader

Andrei Caliman

Diamond Laser Project Leader

Andrei Caliman received a Master's degree in solid-state electronics from the Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau. He has more than 20 years’ experience in laser development and manufacturing, both in research laboratories and companies. He is currently developing diamond-based, high-power lasers at LakeDiamond.

Camille Husson-Stengel

Key Account Director for High-End Jewellery

Camille Husson-Stengel

Key Account Director for High-End Jewellery

Camille Husson-Stengel holds a Master from HEC Paris Business School and is specialized in luxury management. She spearheads work on the LakeDiamond jewellery market activity.

Scientific Advisory board

Prof. Neils Quack

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Neils Quack

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board

Niels Quack MS, PhD, brings deep R&D experience in integrated photonics to LakeDiamond. After concluding post-doctoral studies in the US, he joined Sercalo Microtechnology as MEMS engineer. Appointed Professor at EPFL, Niels is leading research programs on diamond microprocessing in collaboration with LakeDiamond.

Christophe Galland has founded a research group that carries out extensive research on advanced studies in the field of quantum photonics. He has extensive connections with research institutes worldwide that have enabled fruitful scientific collaborations with LakeDiamond.

Blockchain

Dionysis Zindros

Tech Lead

Dionysis Zindros

Tech Lead

Dionysis Zindros is an expert and researcher in cryptography and blockchain. He is a software engineer by training and has worked for companies such as Twitter and Google. He has published White Papers about blockchain foundations and provable security of the permissionless consensus layer. He holds an Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens with a major in Computer Science.

Dimitris Grigoriou

Smart Contract developper

Dimitris Grigoriou

Smart Contract developper

Dimitris Grigoriou is an expert in Ethereum Solidity language and has several experience with Ethereum and EVM. He is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Athens who works on the smart contract implementation.

Dimitris Karakostas

Blockchain & Security

Dimitris Karakostas

Blockchain & Security

Dimitris Karakostas is part of the Blockchain Technology Laboratory at the Edinburgh university with Pr Aggelos Kiayias. He’s specialized in pentesting and has presented in conferences such as Black Hat and BSides its work on compressed protocols. He has strong expertise in smart contracts development.

Anna Tsilidou

Product owner

Anna Tsilidou

Product owner

Anna Tsilidou works on operational excellence & digital transformation. She has worked for companies such as McKinsey & Company, BCG, P&G as well as start-ups. She has a background in Finance and holds a Bachelor of Science from University in Macedonia.

Kostis Karantias

Blockchain developper

Kostis Karantias

Blockchain developper

Kostis Karantias, as a former software engineer at Bloomberg and system administrator at GNU, works on securing the public infrastructure, ICO transactions and the multisig keys management system which will hold the funds.

Aleksis Brezas

Blockchain developper

Aleksis Brezas

Blockchain developper

Aleksis Brezas is a senior software engineer and ensure that the Blockchain protocol code is tested properly with unit and end-to-end tests, to build a clean, simple and elegant code.

Panagiotis Giannoulis

Algorithms / Machine Learning

Panagiotis Giannoulis

Algorithms / Machine Learning

Panagiotis Giannoulis is a PhD candidate at the National Technical University of Athens focusing on Signals and Systems, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning and already working on algorithms and data structures research.

Jean-Philippe Aumasson

Jean-Philippe Aumasson

Jean-Philippe Aumasson is principal research engineer at Kudelski Security, PhD from EPFL and he’s known for designing the cryptographic functions BLAKE2 with Zooko Wilkox (Zcash) and works on new post quantum cryptographic schemes. JP speaks oftenly at Black Hat, DEFCON, CCC, Troopers among other international conferences. He brings his expertise information security and audits of blockchain technologies.